The Karma Cohort is a prospective screening cohort consisting of 70,877 women, initiated in 2011 [Gabrielson, 2017]. Participating women have donated blood that is stored at the Karolinska Institutet Biobank [https://ki.se/en/research/ki-biobank]. Participating women have also repeatedly answered a detailed questionnaire and allowed matching to health care registers and medical records. Every time a participant preforms a mammogram the images are stored. Current rate is approximately 25,000 images / month. Approximately 20,000 Karma participants have been genotyped with the iCOGS or Oncoarry chip as part of a collaboration with the Breast Cancer Association Consortium [as an example please see Michailidou, 2017]. For a detailed description of the Karma Cohort, please see [Gabrielson 2017].
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